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Graduate schools

By supporting doctoral researchers, graduate schools enhance the international profile of German universities. They help graduates to obtain further qualification through master’s and doctoral programs and offer optimal conditions for the completion of a doctorate within a broad range of subjects. They also combine various disciplines.

International Max Planck Research Schools

International Max Planck Research School for Ultrafast Imaging & Structural Dynamics (IMPRS-UFAST)

The International Max Planck Research School for Ultrafast Imaging & Structural Dynamics is a joint venture of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, the Universität Hamburg, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), and the European XFEL GmbH. Over 50 international and German PhD students are supervised by over 30 researchers who are renowned experts in their fields.

The interdisciplinary and structured PhD program offers exciting training opportunities in the areas of ultra-intense electron and X-ray sources for directly observing atomic motions during primary events, and ultrafast imaging over the relevant length and time scales to come to new levels of understanding of the interplay between structure and dynamics.

International Max Planck Research School for Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM)

The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) is an interdisciplinary doctoral program for climate research, which has been coordinated by a total of seven regional research institutions under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens since 1999. In Hamburg, the MIN Faculty, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), the Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (ZMAW), and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI) are involved. A total of roughly 50 doctoral students are currently working on earth system models simulating processes on land, in the atmosphere, and in the ocean.

Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research (PIER)

In February 2011, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and Universität Hamburg established the Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research (PIER) to further develop their long-standing cooperation. PIER focuses on four pioneering research areas:

particle and astroparticle physics

nanosciences

photon science

infection and structural biology

DESY and the MIN Faculty have already cooperated successfully in all four areas. The PIER Idea Fund is a central component for the advancement of research. The PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS), which is being funded for a period of six years, provides intensive graduate training. Since 2013, the Joachim Herz Stiftung has funded five PhD candidates in PHGS.